Glorious Mahalia: III. Are you being treated right

[Verse 1: Mahalia Jackson] Are you being treated right because you're black? How do you fare in America because you black? Are you being treated right because you're black? How do you fare in America because you black? [Verse 2: Mahalia Jackson & Studs Terkel] And my people is, is really coming along But my God, we come along so slow, 'til we're choking But now something obviously is happening And not only in Birmingham and Nashville, but obviously it's happening It's the young, Mahalia, the high school kids, it's the young kids Well, why? Why? Well, of course, you being white you don't know They look at their mother and father, washing and ironing and working, trying to send them to school And you know a child from the age of four, five years old Get this inferior feeling This thing just has burst out [Verse 3: Mahalia Jackson] Only thing we are interested in is equal rights Where we can make a living to survive, you understand? And to have an education Only the grace of God that has brought me thus far, being an unlearned woman What was I gonna try to learn from down there? Was no, there was no work for me If I'da got a chance to go to college There was nothing for me to do beside still push the white people's buggy Their babies and clean their babies and clean their house [Verse 4: Mahalia Jackson & Studs Terkel] I, I wanna see my people be respected You know, it's the most distasteful thing to hear a white man call your man, your husband or your brother, a boy That, he's no boy, he's a man like anybody and his head can be as white as his That's disrespect My friend Big Bill he sing, "When will I get to be called a man?" Yeah "When will I get to be called a man?" is a song he sang Yeah [Verse 5: Mahalia Jackson] There's a God somewhere And no man on Earth is able to, to keep people in bondage Because God created this, this Earth for man And He didn't say whether you're black or white [Verse 6: Mahalia Jackson] Sometime when I'm burdened or the thoughts go through my mind But uh, the groan comes out of my soul, my— For deliverance Then ever was a person that feel that there a time for us to have our freedom and deliverance I think that it is now